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Hi, I'm Jeff, and welcome to history and Factoid's about today,
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Today's July twenty first.
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We are called the junk food found everywhere.
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We do tend to taste good, to eat us with care.
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Some of us are sugar sweet and some are very
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hot delicious.
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We may beat healthy.
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We are not.
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Today is National Junk Food Day. Junk food. It is
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high in fat, sugar, salt, calories. I guess that's why
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we love it so much. Now, today is your permission
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to have a cheap day. Eat whatever you want, whatever
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you've been craving, or just whatever you feel like eating.
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You know, fast food, chips, cookies, candy, yeah, whatever, That's
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only one day, So no salas today. Just endulged and
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some carbs and enjoy that junk food.
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Now.
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If you're over forty or so, yeah, you're gonna feel
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like crap tomorrow. Let's see what happened to entertainment on
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July twenty. First, let's go back to nineteen eighty. Billy
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Joel had the number one album with Glasshouses. Billy had
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the number one song that still rock and roll to me.
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Should again A.
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Set of white ball tires?
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Are you're going to cruise? America Mile.
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Nowadays, you can't be too set. The man talk, the passps,
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true baby boo cot the nets on cool. Even it's
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old John is still lying, Golden me.
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Merle Haggard and Clinte's to it at the number one
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country song with barroom buddies.
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Barroom buddies, and that's the best kit buddy foods with
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a buddy of mine.
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I laugh when you're.
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Happy, and I cry when you're blue. We're barroom buddies
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and we're doing fine. So call me another.
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They got nothing but time old chug.
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A lug, a lugging barroom buddy of mine. Number one
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book was Range of Angels by Sydney Sheldon. Top move
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was Caddy Shack had a super rich golf club. Country Club. Yeah,
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they have to deal with a really obnoxious new member
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and a Gopher star as Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, Ted Knight,
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Rodney Dangerfield. All right, what happened on July the twenty first.
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I'm sure you've all seen depiction of Chinese men back
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in history. You'd see him, they'd be bald, and they'd
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have that man bun on the back of the head.
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That was actually a law sixteen forty five, the Manchu
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Prince Grogan. He issued in order that all Chinese men
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had to shave the front of their heads, and then
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we're what they call a que Interesting side note though,
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until the last one hundred years or so, Chinese men
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rarely had to deal with balding her hair loss. It's
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what changed they started living in more European lifestyle. Eighteen
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fifty three, in New York, Central Park was created. The
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New York Legislature designated seventy and fifty acres of land
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on Manhattan to be used for a public park. It's
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actually eight hundred and forty three acres teen sixty one.
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The first major battle of the Civil War was fought. Before
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then they were just called skirmishes. It was fight in
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near him Nassas, Virginia. It is the Battle of bull Run.
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Now it was a really lop side of victory for
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the South. But before the battle of the locals they
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all want to go check it out. So they all
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dressed stepperly knives, grabbed all their families and the kids
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in laws and everybody. Then they went out and picnicked
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over a hill overlooking the battle. Well, once the North
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started getting whoop and they turned tail and ran right
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through where all those people were picnicking. Of course the
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South gave chase. Yeah, those picnickers, they had quite the
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story to tell. A true Western shootout is where two
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men would meet in the center of town and then
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draw on each other. You've seen it in lots of movies. Now,
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the first time it was actually done was today in
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eighteen sixty five in Springfield, Missouri, while Bill hitcock shot
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and killed Dave's tough Wow, Toughy has stolen Bill's watch.
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Now with that one on one quick draw, while Bill
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became a living legend. Eighteen seventy three, Frank and Jesse
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James and the Younger Gang they robbed their first train.
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They derailed it near a Deer, Iowa. Now they wore
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klu klux Klan hoods to cover themselves. Now, they only
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got like two thousand dollars from the train safe. See,
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they're supposed to have a shipment of gold they thought,
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and it wasn't on the train. So yeah, that was
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kind of a burmer. So they end up stealing a
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number one thousand dollars in cash and jewelry from all
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the passengers. Now, that was the first time in world
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history that a moving train had been stopped to be robbed.
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See what they did is they removed one of the rails.
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So when the engine got there, yeah, I just went
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into a ditch. It killed the engineer and the fireman
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that both passengers were pretty much fine except for the
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fact they got robbed. Nineteen nineteen in Chicago, a blimp
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crashed through the skylight of a bank. Thirteen people were killed.
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All right, some more. We're gonna do some state record
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high temps today. I think we're about Dunelas state record
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high temps. And anyway, nineteen thirty millsbrough Delaway got up
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to one hundred and ten. Nineteen thirty four Gielopolis, Ohio,
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they had one hundred and thirteen degrees. Nineteen sixty Cini
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Mavo Brandon Aroniki. She was the first woman ever elected
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the head of a government of our country. Actually the
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first time anybody was elected a woman to be in
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charge of their country. She was elected the primary instru
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of say Loan. That's Sri Lanka. Today. We keep talking
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abou all these high temperatures every day in all these
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states and all that kind of we forget down south.
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It's still winter. It was nineteen eighty three at the
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Soviet Union's Vostok Research station in Antarctica, they recorded the
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coldest temperature ever recorded on our planet, negative two hundred
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and eight one hundred and okay, negative one hundred and
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twenty eight point six degrees. So how would you like
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to be a scientist and get sent from Russia to Antarctica?
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That was suck at the US warship the Constitution. It
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set sail in seventeen ninety seven. It got famous being
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nicknamed Old Ironside. Now it actually sat at a dock
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for one hundred and sixteen years. Well, they decided, you
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know what, we're going to celebrate his two hundred birthday,
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so they fully restored her. So today, in nineteen ninety seven,
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set sail for the first time one hundred and sixteen years.
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You can actually go see the ship that's in the
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dock in Boston. I mean you can walk on the
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deck and everything, but you can't explore the ship or
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anything like that. But it didn't cost you any money.
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Twenty eleven, the space shuttle the Atlantis landed. That was
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the end of the spaceboat shuttle program. Twenty twenty three,
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a two thousand euro stone slab for grinding spices when
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discovered in South Vietnam. I don't know how you date
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a stone, but okay, anyway, they say it still smelled
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like nutmeg.
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Joke, stop cooked.
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Joked, joke, shot dish.
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Shivers day.
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We gonna he left this shiver day.
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We want simple card like this shivers day.
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And you know we don't do work.
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To you, okay. Who was born on July the twenty
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first writer Ernest Hemingway. He was born in oh Park,
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Illinois in eighteen ninety nine. Oh Ernest, he grew up rich. Yeah,
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the Hemingways, they were really wealth to do. Yeah they
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still are now. He was rejected when he tried to
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enlist in the United States Army to fight in World
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War One. They said he had two poor of vice sights.
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So he joined the Red Cross and went over there
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and drove an ambulance. Yeah, I know irony is in
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his books too.
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After the war he traveled the world. He wrote as
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a reporter. He wrote short stories. They wrote seven novels,
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The Torrensa Spring the sun also rises. Farewell to arms,
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to have and have nots for whom the bell tolls
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across the River End of the Woods and The Old
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Man in the Sea. Now he won a Nobel Prize
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in literature for The Old Man in the Sea. Now
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the ending just pissed me off.
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He had one child from his first wife, two from
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his second wife. Married his fourth wife in nineteen forty six, Hittingwey.
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He committed suicide in nineteen sixty one and sixty one
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years old. Now he wasn't the first hitting Way to
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commit suicide. Seven people in his direct family have a
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couple of his uncles, his grandfather, his father, his sister, brother,
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and his granddaughter Margo Hemingway. Yep, all killed themselves.
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No, we call Spiny will the.
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Way. That was case Starr. She was born in Door
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What are your clomb? In nineteen twenty two. She was
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manly a jazz singer. She had her business success doing
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popping country songs. She has one of the top singers
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in the late forties. Throughout the fifties, she did wore
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six times. She did have a daughter from her second husband. Okay.
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She died in twenty sixteen and ninety four years old
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from Alzheimer's.
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Come and knock on our door.
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We've been waiting for you, waiting this is a person
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person his he's pumping into.
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Acting. Only me, and we're gonna talk about Actor Don Knots.
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He was born in Morgantown, West Virginia, in nineteen twenty four.
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He first hit really big playing Barney Fife on the
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Andy Griffith Show. Then he was Mister Fairley on Threes Company.
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Now the guy made a lot more movies than I
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ever thought. Some of them are The Ghost and Mister Chicken,
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The Shakiest Gun in the West, The Apple, Dumpling Gang
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Movies Pleasantville. He won five Themians when he played Barney
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fIF on Andy Griffith. He had a daughter and a
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son from his first wife, married his second third wife
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in two thousand and two. Then Don died from lung
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cancer and eighty one years old. Yeah, in two thousand
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and six. Now get this before I can see this
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before when he first started out in entertainment, Yeah, he
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was a ventriloquist comdian. Actor Robin Williams was born in Chicago.
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He's nineteen fifty one. Started out as a stand up
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commedian and then it really big on the TV show
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Mark and Mindy. Well that led to movies made over
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eighty movies He was nominated for Oscars for a Good
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Morning Vietnam Dead Poet Society, The Fisher King. He won
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an Oscar for Goodwill Honey. He won five Grammys and
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works for Yeah Best Comedy Albums, and then he won
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another Grammy for Best Children's Home. He had a son
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from his first wife and had a son and a
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daughter from his second wife. Married his third wife twenty eleven. Robin.
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He committed suicide in twenty fourteen and sixty three years old.
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Eric Brazilia and he is a co lead singer for
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The End the Hooters. Eric is seventy three. He's born
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in Philadelphia in nineteen fifty three. Helped form The Hooters
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in nineteen eighty. Some of their big hits ary Day
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by Day and we danced all you zombies? Where do
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the children go?
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Now?
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They're actually out on to it right now in Europe.
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They're celebrating their forty fifth anniversary being together. That's really cool.
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You know.
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I like their music, but I don't even go watch
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a bunch of seventy year old Hooters.
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Eric.
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He is married and they have three children.
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This is one of my favorite writers. Mike Connolly is
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seventy He's born in Philadelphia in nineteen fifty six. Now,
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if you haven't read his book The Poet, yeah, that's
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a mystery, now, Connolly, he has actually written forty one novels. Now,
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the main character is Harry Bosh. That might sound familiar
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to you from the movies and the TV shows they
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made of his books. But all his books, they're Harry
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Bosch books. Or are their books that contain characters who
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are in Harry Bosh books?
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All right?
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He like, all right. He either read the book or
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saw the movie The Lincoln Lawyer that starred Matthew McConaughey.
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Well he was Harry Bosh's half brother, so it just works.
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They all intertwined between books and movies now, Connelly. He
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got married nineteen eighty four and they have one child.
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Comedian actor John Love it's a sixty nine. He was
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born in Los Angeles in nineteen fifty seven. Started out
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doing stand up. He's on Saturday Night Live from nineteen
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eighty five to nineteen ninety. He's been in eighty movies. Also,
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Some of is our Big League of their own, The
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Wedding Singer, the bench Warmers. He's done a lot, a lot,
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a lot, of voice work. Johnny hasn't married yet, he said,
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he's still playing the field. All right. Here our quote
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of the day. It comes from astronaut Alan Shepard. He
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was the fifth person a walk on the moon. Alan
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died today in nineteen ninety eight at seventy four years old.
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He said, it's a very sobering feeling to be up
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in space and realize that your safety realized on the
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lowest bidder on a government contract. Well, thank you all
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